![]() Doctorow's Daniel, as a son of the executed Isaacsons (freely interpreted versions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg) to piece together the story of his parents' trial and appeals process and the various political and cultural myths which surrounded it, together with his memories of life with them in the Bronx in the forties, memories of their friends, political actions, marital and family life, in an effort to discover the truth about their guilt or innocence and so lay a foundation for what continues to elude him: a sense of his own identity. The biblical Daniel not only interpreted the dreams of the monarch Nebuchadnezzar, but reimagined and reconstituted those dreams Nebuchadnezzar had forgotten, so that no detail of the enigmatic story they comprised would escape analysis.
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